Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat
Certificate of the record
The Four Instruments — A promise made in war, kept in land, marked on a people, and sworn before a magistrate.
POS001-261028-000019 · version 1 · A draft — not yet for use
What it is
The Pledge of 1779, the Proclamation of 1784, Dorchester’s Order of 1789 and Simcoe’s Register Proclamation of 1796: each in its own words, with the phrases that matter picked out, what it did, and the Nation’s reading. What the four do together, and what is deliberately outside them. On the web the sheets unroll one by one, the seals stamp, and a tap brings any instrument forward.
| Its date | 2026-10-27al |
| Made by | Mohawk’s Printer for Grand River |
| Their qualifications | Drawn by Mohawk’s Printer for Grand River from the National Books’ own data; Books I and II, The Nation and its Instruments and The Acquired Territory Doctrine shows it on a page of its own. |
| Their duty | Not recorded. |
| Its standing as a survey | This is the Nation’s determination, made from the sources named; it is not a survey under the Surveyors Act, and was not prepared by a licensed surveyor. |
| Datum and projection | Not a map; the Three Villages’ inset keeps the land map’s datum (NAD83 / UTM zone 17N). |
How it was made
An illustration, drawn from the sources below; printed in A3 landscape (420 × 297 mm), with A2 and A1 print files, 3 mm bleed and crop marks.
How surely
An illustration, not a survey: the figures stand for no particular family. The Three Villages’ inset is the Register’s own land map, drawn from its layers.
A poster: it teaches, and does not decide. The record of any person’s line is the Register’s.
Its sources
- Haldimand’s Pledge, 7 April 1779 — Haldimand Papers, Library and Archives Canada MG 21, 1779; to be confirmed
- The Haldimand Proclamation, 25 October 1784 — The Crown, 1784; public record
- Lord Dorchester’s Order in Council, 9 November 1789 — Library and Archives Canada, RG1 L1, vol. 18, p. 110, 1789; public record
- Simcoe’s Register Proclamation, 6 April 1796 — the Niagara and Long Point settlers’ records, 1796; to be confirmed
- The Register’s land map — Grand River Conservation Authority; King’s Printer for Ontario, 2026; Open Government Licence – Ontario
What it carries
✓ A title · ✓ Its maker · ✓ Its date · ✓ A scale bar · ✓ A scale ratio (1 : n) · ✓ North · ✓ A legend · ✓ Its datum and projection · ✓ Its sources, with their dates · ✓ A statement of its accuracy · ✓ A locator (where it is in the wider world) · ✓ Its credits and licences
Its files, and their fingerprints (SHA-256)
| The picture | poster-the-four-instruments.webp 84,226 bytes | c4b35274fce641a5520d272021ff2a7e31b22e84c39697642e92200ff4e5ffd7 |
| The print (PDF) | poster-the-four-instruments.pdf 559,478 bytes | 374259a223d44533e08ac126c2176eb09043716c33458eb860ad1398210f0f17 |
Its entries in the integrity log
| 33 | 2026-11-08 04:16:52 UTC | Its file replaced before certification: the poster as the plugin now carries it — admin Timestamped by timestamp.digicert.com at 2026-11-08 04:16:55 UTC · its token (.tsr) | ae53e69bb7db3e71900e267f29a9f577c1cd2c13b15f6a6590569842fcb719a5 |
How the records are kept
The records of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat are kept in the Nation’s Register, an electronic records system kept in the usual and ordinary course of the Secretariat’s work. When a file is taken into the Map Room its SHA-256 fingerprint is taken at once and entered in the Register’s integrity log, in which every entry is sealed with the fingerprint of the entry before it; a certified version’s files cannot be changed, and a change makes a new version, the old being kept. At the date of this certificate the log holds 36 entries and, read through, every entry seals the one before it.
To cite it
Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat, The Four Instruments (poster), POS001-261028-000019, version 1, . https://mohawkuniversity.org/Register/verify/POS001-261028-000019 ISBN 978-1-0680559-6-6, Mohawk’s Printer for Grand River.
A draft affidavit of the custodian of the records
To be read with counsel before it is used; to be sworn or affirmed before a commissioner.
I, ______________________, of ______________________, MAKE OATH (or AFFIRM) AND SAY:
1. I am the ______________________ of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat, and have the keeping of its records, and so have knowledge of the matters below.
2. Attached as Exhibit “___” is a true copy of the record POS001-261028-000019, version 1, “The Four Instruments”, as it is kept in the Secretariat’s records.
3. The records of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat are kept in the Nation’s Register, an electronic records system kept in the usual and ordinary course of the Secretariat’s work. When a file is taken into the Map Room its SHA-256 fingerprint is taken at once and entered in the Register’s integrity log, in which every entry is sealed with the fingerprint of the entry before it; a certified version’s files cannot be changed, and a change makes a new version, the old being kept. At the date of this certificate the log holds 36 entries and, read through, every entry seals the one before it.
4. The SHA-256 fingerprint of each file of the record, as it was taken into the records, is set out in the certificate of the record attached; the fingerprint of the copy attached is the same.
5. To my knowledge the system was at all material times operating properly, and nothing in it has been altered except as recorded in its integrity log.
SWORN (or AFFIRMED) before me at ______________________, on ______________________.
Electronic documents are received as evidence on proof that they are what they purport to be, and of the integrity of the system that kept them (Canada Evidence Act, ss. 31.1–31.3; Evidence Act (Ontario), s. 34.1). This certificate sets out that record; whether a record is admitted, and its weight, are for the court.
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